If you try rendering, you may not see anything, because the default camera is only linked into the original default scene named “Scene”. You may also find additional scenes created with nothing in them, that you can delete. The model imports into a new Blender scene, called something like “SketchupScene” or “SketchupScene001”.

Tips: I’ve tried importing a few of these 3D Warehouse models, and so far I’ve only noticed a couple of issues: Fixing these to be usable will push your blender skills to new levels in some cases. Note: some of the 3d warehouse models can't be understood by blender due to a zillion repeating elements, others will show up invisible (one sided, or inside out), be gigantic in size, or all parented to some crazy spot out in space. zip files with a collada inside them, so just rename and unzip)

- Google's 3d warehouse repository take the collada version, when available ( the Google Earth downloads are actually.

This seems to have some licensed models and might be legal trouble see Discussion at These sites offer models in other formats.

- specifically for swapping Blender models.

BlenderKit - free models, materials and brushes available through Blender add-on.

Yorik’s site - some Blender files for his architectural projects are available for download.

- they have furniture, arcade video games, joysticks, toys, vehicles, road and sidewalk items, and simple human models.

Free blender models